Re: F12 on a P4

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On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:21:57 -0500
Marcel Rieux <m.z.rieux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Pentium Pro is the original "i686" system.
> 
> And since it was introduced in 1995, if your computer is less than 14
> years old, you'll be doing fine.

That is the "first". The last non i686 chips are I believe still in
production for embedded systems and embedded PC. Also in the desktop
world the VIA C3 is an i686 equivalent but due to a years old historic
bug [which we are now stuck with] in the gcc machine definitions won't
run gcc "686" code.

Alan

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